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Generating outrage bait? Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!

Generating outrage bait? Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!

Ryan George's latest YouTube video has a funny take on a frustrating problem.

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Parker Molloy
Jul 07, 2022
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I’ve written a lot about how frustrated I get when I see articles built entirely around a handful of tweets. These stories are often framed with headlines like, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is Deemed ‘Racist'“ (The National Review, 2018, made up entirely out of 4 tweets that were clearly joking about how during the dinner scene, Franklin, a Black chara…

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